PITTSFORD, N.Y. — A year ago, Deonte Thompson and Zay Jones were the Buffalo Bills’ most productive receivers with 27 catches each.

And while general manager Brandon Beane didn’t make many significant changes to that receiving corps during the offseason, it took just nine practices of training camp for Beane to notice that the wideout competition needed some life. That’s why he decided to pick up the phone and revisit trade negotiations with Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey, sending a 2020 seventh-round pick to Cleveland in exchange for wide receiver Corey Coleman.

Coleman, a 2016 first-round pick, hasn’t lived up to the hype so far. His first two NFL seasons have both been cut short by injury and he has just 56 catches. The Bills aren’t exactly in a position to be picky, though.

“It hasn’t worked out the way he thought when he was drafted or the way they thought when they drafted him in the first round,...